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Trouble is, of course, Dineen 'borrowed' the title for her documentary. Can I suggest we stop doing this? Geographers guilty of a few of these. ---------- from one or more of:- Attila Kiraly. 1978. Australia: The Land of Lies. Hutchinson. Patricia Beer. 1983. The Lie of the Land. Hutchinson (about NZ rural life) John Clanchy. 1985. Lie of the land. Pascoe. Haydn Middleton. 1989. The Lie of the Land. Ballantine Books. (possibly a novel) Sean Dennis Cashman. 1981. Prohibition: The Lie of the Land. Collier Mac. K.J. Gregory. 1990. The Lie of the Land: An Encyclopedia of Physical Geography Time Life UK. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. 1994. The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India. Oxford Univ Press. Fintan O'Toole. 1995. The Lie of the Land. Gallery of Photography (pics or essays?) Leach M and Mearns, R. eds. 1996. The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment. James Currey (famous book on item 1 in the conference call) Paul Carter. 1996. The lie of the land. Faber and Faber, London. (urban plans and street patterns etc.) Don Mitchell. 1996. The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. University of Minnesota Press. Nigel Jenkins. 1996. Wales: The Lie of the Land. Gomer Press. Fintan O'Toole. 1997. The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities. Verso Books Jack Cheshire. 1997. Dispatches: The lie of the land. Channel 4 Television Dick Hoskins. 1998. Lies of the Land: The Truth of the Matter. Polecat Press. (possibly a novel) Sam North. 1999. The Lie of the Land. New edition. Vintage. (actually about a Dartmoor farm) M. Henderson. 1999. The Lie of the Land. Longacre Press (fiction) Mary Leland. 2000. Lie of the Land: Journeys Through Literary Cork. Cork University Press Peter Barber, April Carlucci (Eds) 2001. The Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps. British Library Publishing Division Robert Wilson-North. 2002. The Lie of the Land: Aspects of the Archaeology and History of the Designed Landscape in the South West of England. Mint Press. (again about the SW) Council for the Protection of Rural England. 2003. Lie of the Land. CPRE Publications. (pamphlet?) Duncan Pickard. 2004. Lie of the Land. Shepheard-Walwyn (which is at least about the UK farming scene) Peter Finch, Jan Fortune-Wood eds. 2006. The Lie of the Land: An Anthology of Poetry from Wales and Welsh Poetry in English. Cinnamon Press. and finally Molly Dineen. 2006.The Lie of the Land. Channel 4 documentary. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [AON] rural geography, call for papers for UK conference From: "Frank Vanclay" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, December 13, 2007 9:23 am To: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RGS-IBG 2008 - Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) This is a call for papers for the Rural Geography section of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers conference which will be held in London 27-29 August 2008. THEME Title for Section: "The Lie of the Land": Rural Lies, Myths and Realities Convenors: Gareth Enticott (Cardiff University) Keith Halfacree (Swansea University) In May 2006, Channel 4 screened "The Lie of the Land", a documentary by Molly Dineen. Originally intended to be about hunting, the documentary ended up focusing on traditional productive agriculture in marginal South-west England. In doing so it provoked equal amounts of outrage, praise, anger and shock. It showed in graphic detail some of the less attractive realities of rural living: from the routine slaughter of healthy yet unprofitable new-born calves on dairy farms, to the acute poverty of many farmers? day-to-day lives, to the harsh impacts of reforms to agricultural subsidies. In the agricultural press, farmers were equally pleased and angered: pleased because the film served to highlight the plight of productive agriculture but also angered because some felt that it undermined those seeking to develop quality products. The title of the documentary - "The Lie of the Land" - resonates powerfully in more general ways too. It signifies a set of long held `lies? about the English countryside - from the `lie? of a bucolic rural idyll and the (unseen) `lies? of modern agriculture. These lies, though, are not necessarily told by farmers but arguably more commonly by governments and the urban population. For this session, therefore, we are calling for papers that deal with the implications for rural geography raised by the "Lie of the Land". In particular, papers are invited that deal with the following themes: 1) Rural Lies and Myths. The title of Molly Dineen?s documentary brings to the surface wide-ranging questions about rural lies, myths and realities. Who lies about the rural and who is aware of those untruths? What rural myths exist? How do they circulate around rural populations? What impact do they have? How are lies manifested and by whom or what: humans, nonhumans, topographies/geomorphologies? 2) The practice of agriculture in (marginal) rural areas. How have recent reforms to agricultural policy affected rural livelihoods? For example, how has the management of the Rural Payments Agency impacted upon farmers? How have changes to the management of agri- environment schemes, animal health policies and the Common Agricultural Policy generally altered the practice of farming today? 3) Methodological Lies. Dineen?s documentary is situated as a journey of discovery and accidental realisation of a set of rural problems. What other methodological journeys have researchers experienced that has awakened them to rural lies and truths? To what extent are the truths researchers say about the rural based on purposive or accidental journeys? The documentary also raises the question of how geographers should deal with lying. Which methods are best suited for exploring and capturing lies? Does it matter if research participants lie? What untruths do researchers themselves tell? Please submit abstracts of not more than 250 words by January 31st 2008 to either: Dr Keith Halfacree Swansea University [log in to unmask] or: Dr Gareth Enticott Cardiff University [log in to unmask] ________________________________________ Dr Gareth Enticott, School of City and Regional Planning and ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3WA. Tel: 029 2087 6243 www.brass.cf.ac.uk ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Dr. Simon Batterbury From Aug 2007-Feb 2008: James Martin Fellow, Envt.Change Institute, OUCE, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY UK t: +(0)1865 275854. f: +(0)1865 275850 www.eci.ox.ac.uk [log in to unmask] http://www.simonbatterbury.net & usually: Senior Lecturer, Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC Australia.